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{6:18} Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. {6:19} What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? {6:20} For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
{7:1} Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman. {7:2} Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. {7:3} Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. {7:4} The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. {7:5} Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. {7:6} But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment. {7:7} For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
{7:8} I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. {7:9} But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. {7:10} And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband: {7:11} But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife. {7:12} But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. {7:13} And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. {7:14} For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. {7:15} But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases:] but God hath called us to peace. {7:16} For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife? {7:17} But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. {7:18} Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. {7:19} Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. {7:20} Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. {7:21} Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather. {7:22} For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ’s servant. {7:23} Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. {7:24} Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
{7:25} Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. {7:26} I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say,] that [it is] good for a man so to be. {7:27} Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. {7:28} But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned.
Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. {7:29} But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; {7:30} And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; {7:31} And they that use this world, as not abusing [it:] for the fashion of this world passeth away. {7:32} But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: {7:33} But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife. {7:34} There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband. {7:35} And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. {7:36} But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. {7:37} Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. {7:38} So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better. {7:39} The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. {7:40} But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
{8:1} Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. {8:2} And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. {8:3} But if any man love God, the same is known of him. {8:4} As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. {8:5} For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) {8:6} But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. {8:7} Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. {8:8} But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. {8:9} But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. {8:10} For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; {8:11} And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? {8:12} But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. {8:13} Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
{9:1} Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? {9:2} If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
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